| #78489 in Books | Liebling, A. J./ Anasi, Robert (FRW) | 2004-09-29 | 2004-09-09 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 207.77 x.77 x5.47l,.60 | File Name: 0374272271 | 288 pages | North Point Press
||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Sparring with Socrates|By Reviewer|I resisted reading this book, just because, as a lover of boxing and literary journalism, my tendency is to love books I don't hear praised much, and to find myself underwhelmed by canonized classics. I never liked Leonard Gardner's "Fat City" or W.C. Heinz's "The Professional," but I loved Ralph Wiley's "Serenity" and Tom Hauser's "The Black||"Nobody wrote about boxing with more grace and enthusiasm than Joe Liebling." --New York Times|About the Author||A. J. Liebling joined the staff of The New Yorker in 1935 and wrote for the magazine until his
A.J. Liebling's classic New Yorker pieces on the "sweet science of bruising" bring vividly to life the boxing world as it once was. It depicts the great events of boxing's American heyday: Sugar Ray Robinson's dramatic comeback, Rocky Marciano's rise to prominence, Joe Louis's unfortunate decline. Liebling never fails to find the human story behind the fight, and he evokes the atmosphere in the arena as distinctly as he does the goings-on in the ring--a comb...
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